ENGL 4340

Dreaming Romanticism

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

The story of the Fall, in John Milton's Paradise Lost, is also a story of dreams. Woven into the epic tale of our first encounter with mortality, Adam's and Eve's trances and dream-life tell their own stories within the grand narrative of human beginnings and raise questions about the nature of poetic language in the face of  life and death. In this course we will trace the perplexing stories of these dreams as they pass from Milton to the Romantic poets, whose poetry can be said to rewrite the peculiar relation between falling and dreaming in a new language of mortality and survival. Authors will include John Milton, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley, among others.

When Offered Spring.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (LA-AS)

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